Did I leave my spiral notebook on the card table? Just put it aside until I coome home - there is nothing I need for a while in it.

Would you look in the Penfield book to see if there is an Issac Penfield (b ? 1820) married to Mary Ann Allyn? Look up Allyn in the index and the number is the number of the Penfield (not page number). If no Allyn - try Allen. Are there any children? And who are parents?

There were a lot of expert swimmers and divers along the river but Vince Brennan and my brother Sonny were the only ones I ever saw dive from the top deck of the night boat "The Berkshire"

Abie Finkelstein

He was trying to sell me a coat when I was staying at 47 Fonda, but we mist have all been in Athens. He kept saying "Miss Frisbee you look exotic" and after that Aunt Ethel used to say "Miss Frisbee you look narcotic."

Miss Rainey - my first grade teacher - lives at 4 Warren St Athens. She came to see me when my mother died, and said to John, "Take good care of my girl." Since then she has given me a tin chamber stick dated 1835. She said she never had a raise in pay until my father got on the Bd. of Education and that if they needed anything for school plats, costumes, etc., all she had to do was "tell Mrs. Frisbee."

When Charlie Sarrano's grandson Bill Stafford pitched for the Yankees, Charles Jr. took him to Yankee Stadium to see Bill pitch. When manager Ralph Houk went to the mound to take Bill out, Charlie stood up in his box seat, cupped his hands to his mouth and yelled at Houk, "You domb sahn-of-a-beech, he's a pitch a hius heart out. Dey don't catcha da ball."

When I was a little girl we had a big framed Civil War picture, "The Siege of Vicksburgh." When I asked my father about it, he told me this story.

Grandpa Frisbee's sister, Elvira, stood in the window as the boys marched off to the Civil War. They asked her who she was looking for and she said "Joe Schill. I'm going to marry him when he comes back." She was still very young and they laughed.

Joe Schill was captured and kept in Libby Prison. After the war, he came home and married Elvira Frisbee, Her brother George (my g'father) named his son, Joe Schill, after her husband. The picture was given to my father by the man he was named for.

Found in "The Hudson" by Carl Carmer. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1968.